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Van Morrisons - ahh good, the groceries are here.

20 frets? Centrally located pickup? Ever so slightly beefed up BBOT bridge? It's a P bass that had a fight with a dodecahedron and lost! I actually quite like how it looks. But it's like me in a new shirt - apart from the change of shirt, it's still the same barely proficient bass player!

It just smacks of trying too hard to be different.

Because it's both and neither at the same time?

What does it matter? Is it arrogant? No, I don't think so. My personal thinking would be that if I had a new song, I'd probably want to have it somewhere in the middle of the main set, so if it goes over a bit meh then there's other songs to bring the set momentum back on track. But that's just me, and I'm not saying that others are wrong for thinking a different way. Of course, it would be nice to be in such a position - to have recognised songs for listeners to compare the new one to and make relative judgements about, but that's another issue entirely

The silent part when one of the Wishbasses was shown, quality moment, genuine LOL.

Also, the answer is P bass, you're all wrong, fight me. *record scratch*

A strange yet soothing calm descends over the forum. Biscuits resume their tea dunking and the newspapers stop being rustled.

If you go back and edit the very first post of your thread, you should be able to edit the title of the thread also. That would render all this discussion null and void and put it all to bed.

Vienradzis, vispārējs, means the same thing, doesn't it, @nilorius?

Respectfully disagree on the ugly verdict. As for weight, well there are lighter basses at the centre of a black hole

Well I could take it one further and suggest that the J pickup gets replaced with a DiMarzio also, so that the pole pieces also match...

It might look more balanced if the neck pickup is replaced with a DiMarzio Model One with black cover.

Unicorn == unobtainable (or at least super difficult), mythical. The only thing it has in common with the word universal is that it starts with the same three letters. Also, the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

muhahahaha...

Is there anything "universal" about you other than you breathe oxygen? You do breathe oxygen, right?

It's really just the pickup placements and types that made me say that, coupled with the fact that this bass might stand a chance of balancing on a strap unlike a long scale EB/SG style.

Is this Fender just saying "ha ha Gibson, look, we can even make an EB-3L better than you"

Perhaps I meta'ed the whole thing because of the use of the word "universal". I saw beyond myself and had a realistic think about bass players/bass playing in general. If it's just another free-for-all scrum of personal opinions then you're all wrong, my basses are the best basses in the world until I sell them and get other ones which are the best basses in the world

You say that, but from a Gibsonhead here - universal == Precision bass. I'll embellish: I like Gibson basses BECAUSE they're weird, because they have foibles, because they're relatively uncommon. All those attributes which I deem to be positive pretty much knock them out of contention when it comes to universality. I'm not that blinkered. Gibson have made several choices along the road which ended up practically guaranteeing that they would forever be outliers in the bass world. Including the latest choice of the past few years - don't bother.

YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!

The Specials, "Nite Klub" If there were any unwitting musicians in the music shop when I was trying/buying my first bass - The Stranglers, "Peaches".

They're pretty rare, relative to Artists and Standards, so you'll have plenty of time to build up your strength in the gym before you find one

Route one?

Bloody poor showing in Scotland north of the central belt - where are all my bass playing teuchters at?